London County Council
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723 - 1792, portrait painter, lived and died in a house on this site.
WC2, Leicester Square, 48
There are actually 2 plaques, with the same wording, on the building, one at first floor and one at ground floor level.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
Foundation Stone laid by Raymond Denham Poland Esquire, master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, 22 October 1932. Sir Horace Hamilt...
June 2012 a Museum of London archaeological dig discovered the Curtain Theatre. July 2013 Londonist reported on the plan for the site whi...
Robert Owen, 1771 - 1858, father of the Co-operative movement, lived here, 1832 - 1840. Marchmont Association One Housing
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
LookandLearn has a photo of the building, no.1, before it was demolished. The Dickens relief also commemorates his stay at this address.
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